Concerns have been raised about the Sydney Film Festival and the relatively glacial pace of its board in seeking a new artistic director. It highlights the general ineptitude of bureaucracy and the various boards that oversee its parts, reports Matthew Clayfield.

An expensive Film Victoria party shows it has almost nothing in common with the penurious artists it represents. Its salaried aristocracy enjoy the kind of wages and conditions struggling freelancers can only dream of.

On Monday WA Minister Michelle Roberts was stripped of her Employment Protection portfolio so she could better concentrate on her others of Indigenous Affairs, Housing and Works, Heritage and Land Information. The irony is, the Employment Protection portfolio was given to Minister Jon Ford, who’s known by insiders to have issues with his staff. Several very […]